This editorial post has been moved here from the inDECATUR blog, as it should have been posted here in the first place (in keeping with this blogger's policy). You can read earlier comments about it there (as they can't be moved).
Can your candidate deliver on the all the vague promises of hope and change he's made?
Can
he give everybody earning less than $250K (or whatever the number now
is -- some of his surrogates have stated it as low as $120K) a tax
reduction while adding over $750B in annual government programs)
without increasing the national debt beyond the already shocking $10T
(our shared national debt, which we all must help pay the interest on
with our taxes)?
Do you subscribe to the concept of "spreading
the wealth?" Or, do you prefer the concept of spreading the
opportunity, in which anyone can aspire to improve his/her condition
without anticipating suffocating tax rates if he/she succeeds? Can you
understand increasing the tax rate of small businesses is likely to
result in their reduction of staff, which means LOST JOBS for the
middle class?
Do you believe the Republicans are solely
responsible for the financial meltdown, when the Democrats have been in
control of Congress for the past 2 years (with an approval rate even
lower than the current president's?) Did you view the YouTube video of
Maxine Waters, the Democratic Congresswoman from CA, lambasting
Republicans in 2004 for holding a hearing on Fannie May /Freddie Mac,
in which she said their warnings of impending disaster were simply an
attempt to keep lower-income Americans from owning a house, and
praising the "excellent" administration of Mr. Raines? Do you think
giving the Democrats more seats in both houses will suddenly make them
an effective agent for positive change?
One hundred days after
[to be determined] has been in office, will your life have
dramatically changed as a result of his being elected? Will your
personal financial situation have been improved? Will America be
dramatically changed? Should it be? (Was the Constitution all that
bad?) Or will a stuttering, stammeringly, inexperienced President be
struggling to answer tough questions in a press conference?
Will America then be experiencing "buyer's remorse" (as they call it in the auto industry)?
Will
he be tested by foreign powers, as Joe Biden has predicted? Will it be
NYC again, or multiple American cities, including your city?
This is a rare editorial comment. It's not expected to influence
anyone's vote. It will be referred back to as events unfold during the
next four years.\
UPDATE: Nick @ Decatur Metro
has linked ot this post, leading to over a dozen coments over there.
You have to realize blogs thrive on controversy, and this is great!
If the commenter who ientifies himself as "J" would agreee to a
"videotapded" encounter with this blogger, we would be in blog heaven,
but he'll probably wimp out.
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